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for me, though, over the past year it wasn't just newtown, though newtown was really the final straw for me, the tragedy of that day, it was also the fact that a realization as a parent that it's not safe now to send our children to schools or to send them to malls or even movie theaters or religious services. that what once was the exception is now becoming the rule. we can expect these type of mass shootings as a part of american life and i personally believe it's a combination of many things frfrplt violent american culture to mental health issues to gun issues. i think that's one of three issues. ideologues on both sides will disagree with -- take exception to one or two of those problems, but for me that is not about symbolism anymore, it's about saving children's lives and if it's true that dick cheney and george w. bush believe in the 1% solution if there was a 1% chance that we could stop another 9/11 they would do what it took to take rid of that 1% chance. the i think if that was our approach after 9/11 it should be our approach in protecting our children at schools and sho
for me, though, over the past year it wasn't just newtown, though newtown was really the final straw for me, the tragedy of that day, it was also the fact that a realization as a parent that it's not safe now to send our children to schools or to send them to malls or even movie theaters or religious services. that what once was the exception is now becoming the rule. we can expect these type of mass shootings as a part of american life and i personally believe it's a combination of many things...
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just by coincidence i was in israel the day after the newtown shooting. i was touring a facility where they in fact train guards for their schools. they had a spate of shootings in the 1970s. their crazy people are a little different from ours but the results were the same. they first used volunteers. now each school provides its own private security guards. it works there. it was a sensie thing for them to do. terolumbe, president clinton prepare proposed what he called the cops program. and about 28,000 schools in this country now either have police through that program or police that are paid for by state or private security guards. those schools have... and it is... the argument against it is just what you said. but the fact is if you look at the people who do this, firsally dereininged. secondly, they're cowards. the fact that there's somebody armed there will prevent them in most cases from doing anythin do we live in a perfect world? no. but we can do what makes sense to protect our kids. >> woodruff: speaking of what's not perfect. what about tryi
just by coincidence i was in israel the day after the newtown shooting. i was touring a facility where they in fact train guards for their schools. they had a spate of shootings in the 1970s. their crazy people are a little different from ours but the results were the same. they first used volunteers. now each school provides its own private security guards. it works there. it was a sensie thing for them to do. terolumbe, president clinton prepare proposed what he called the cops program. and...
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, connecticut, and of course when the president made his remarks about newtown he not only included newtown, but he also included the streets of chicago and so there is, there are these different packets of hope, even in the midst of difficulty that a number of our students at howard university and other people that i work with are latching on to at this time. >> i would also say that one of the things that we are learning is what we would need to do as a country in the face of natural societal resistance to change and that there is, there are hard lessons to be learned about how to lead in times of polarization which are different than in times when we, when the country is more naturally coming together and so those require different leadership skills, different spiritual skills, different levels of truth telling. >> wanted to pick up on somhing that you said, professor trulear. when we were talking earlier you spoke about not just gun control, but violence control. talk about that a little bit. >> well, gun control is a piece of violence control. we're a very violent nation. i often talk
, connecticut, and of course when the president made his remarks about newtown he not only included newtown, but he also included the streets of chicago and so there is, there are these different packets of hope, even in the midst of difficulty that a number of our students at howard university and other people that i work with are latching on to at this time. >> i would also say that one of the things that we are learning is what we would need to do as a country in the face of natural...
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been a lot of talk late this week about the fact that maybe the business is being taken out of the newtown disaster and massacre and that members, that this time the nra will be able to get its way because politicians are already backing down from passing strict gun control measures. >> whenever you talk about the competition, whenever you tack about second amendment it's a passionate issue on both sides. something some be -- should be done, however my thing you lost more people in chicago than the war in afghanistan in 2012. >> there have been over a thousand gun deaths we should say since newtown. >> yes. bottom line we need to come to the table, criminals don't to go gun shows and get guns. criminals don't register their guns. i see both sides of the argument here. >> criminals do to go gun shows to get guns, in fact be crazy not to because you can go in to a gun show and nobody -- just a moment. nobody will ask any questions. >> when you -- >> you cannot only get one gun you can get ten or 15 guns. we are going to have this back and forth. what we need to do is say look, what things do
been a lot of talk late this week about the fact that maybe the business is being taken out of the newtown disaster and massacre and that members, that this time the nra will be able to get its way because politicians are already backing down from passing strict gun control measures. >> whenever you talk about the competition, whenever you tack about second amendment it's a passionate issue on both sides. something some be -- should be done, however my thing you lost more people in...
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obviously that didn't do any good at newtown. the problem is the bans don't have anything to do with how fast the guns fire or how powerful their bullets are, it's all based on these superficial things like whether the gun has a folding stock, whether there's a grip on it, whether the grip is in the right place or the wrong place. and that's really a trivial thing for us to be talking about when we should be talking about how to keep guns out of the wrong hands and make sure that there are guns in the right hands. >> pelley: you know what? fore i go to the mental health -- let me come back to josh horowitz on that issue. >> well, look, i think the assault weapons we're talking about are short barreled rifles that take detachable magazines and have pistol groups. that allows you to keep the barrel on the target for a long period of time. there's no muzzle creep in those weapons, you have magazines up to 100 rounds. there's no use for those things. and a bunch of scholars got together last monday and tuesday at johns hopkins at a s
obviously that didn't do any good at newtown. the problem is the bans don't have anything to do with how fast the guns fire or how powerful their bullets are, it's all based on these superficial things like whether the gun has a folding stock, whether there's a grip on it, whether the grip is in the right place or the wrong place. and that's really a trivial thing for us to be talking about when we should be talking about how to keep guns out of the wrong hands and make sure that there are guns...
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productions >> woodruff: on the anniversary of a mass shooting in arizona, and in the aftermath of the newtown school massacre, anti- gun advocates today ramped up their campaign. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we look at the drumbeat for action, and get an update on the second day of hearings for the suspect in th colorado eater shootings. >> woodruff: then we examine the investigation into the 9/11 attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, when four americans were killed, as the sole suspect in custody is released. >> ifill: spencer michels reports on the boom in online teaching and its impact on traditional liberal arts education. . >> woodruff: ray suarez looks into china's current crackdown on the internet and on its own news media, which is drawing protests. >> ifill: and we remember pulitzer prize-winning journalist richard ben cramer, whose work spanned presidential politics and the lives of superstar athletes. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: saving for t
productions >> woodruff: on the anniversary of a mass shooting in arizona, and in the aftermath of the newtown school massacre, anti- gun advocates today ramped up their campaign. good evening. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we look at the drumbeat for action, and get an update on the second day of hearings for the suspect in th colorado eater shootings. >> woodruff: then we examine the investigation into the 9/11 attacks on the u.s....
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. >> there is no similar solution to how we deal with the kinds of things that happened up in newtown or colorado or the general gun violence that exists in america today and. the president and i and the cabinet understands that it is a complicated issue. >> vice-president biden met with the nra, among others, at the white house this week. he's expected to deliver gun control or commissions to the president as early as next tuesday. colby, will this be a showdown with the nra over an assault weapons ban? >> no, it will not be gunfight at the o.k. corral. they will oppose any effort to do any thing on guns, and they may prevail. and there will probably be some agreement on background checks. to be parochial about this, in the district of columbia it would mean nothing to us regardless of any proposal did last year, the metropolitan police department recovered 1600 firearms. the year before, 2000 firearms. since 2003, more than 20,000 illegal weapons have been recovered in the district of columbia. no legal weapons allowed, and yet we recovered over 20,000 weapons. no legislation is dea
. >> there is no similar solution to how we deal with the kinds of things that happened up in newtown or colorado or the general gun violence that exists in america today and. the president and i and the cabinet understands that it is a complicated issue. >> vice-president biden met with the nra, among others, at the white house this week. he's expected to deliver gun control or commissions to the president as early as next tuesday. colby, will this be a showdown with the nra over...
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tough sell dpite 20 children and six adults being killed in the december mass shooting at a school in newtown, connecticut. >> this is really an uphill road. if anyone asked today, "can you win this?" the answer is, we don't know. it's so uphill. >> sreenivasan: vice president biden, who led the obama administration's task force examining gun violence, spent weeks meeting with more than 200 stakeholders after the newtown shootings. >> mr. vice president, welcome to ogle plus. >> sreenivasan: this afternoon, the vice predent joid me and four others from across the country in a conversation on gun policy in a google hangout. assault weapons were at the top of the discussion. >> one of reason why the assault weapons ban makes sense even though it accounts for a small percentage of the murders or those who die as the consequence of a weapon every year is because police organizations overwhelmingly support it because they get outgunned. they are outgunned on the street thead gs and the proliferation of these weapons. when in fact there were fewer police being murdered, fewer being outgunned when t
tough sell dpite 20 children and six adults being killed in the december mass shooting at a school in newtown, connecticut. >> this is really an uphill road. if anyone asked today, "can you win this?" the answer is, we don't know. it's so uphill. >> sreenivasan: vice president biden, who led the obama administration's task force examining gun violence, spent weeks meeting with more than 200 stakeholders after the newtown shootings. >> mr. vice president, welcome to...
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tragic, and he's trying to sort of capitalize on a lot of that energy the same way they're doing on newtown to motivate people to action. from a political perspective in congress democrats raised pacs, as well. gabrielle giffords aims to raise $20 million for the 2014 midterm elections. the n.r.a. is obviously, as you meioned, going to be adding to their membership, getting more fund raising so this is a battle and a place where they can take out intense positions. >> sreenivasan: how about putting this in terms of perspective in terms of 2014, 2016? even the vice president why he decided to come out on good deal but is on almost a road tour. he seems to be campaigning for both gun rights and gun control or sun safety as well as maybe for himself. >> well, the presidential race, of course, we just inaugurated president oba for his second rm. we've seen aionhif tothe states. you have democratic governors making moves on this. andrew cuomo in new york is taking the lead. he could run for president. the vice president is not making it secret that he could be running for president as well so he
tragic, and he's trying to sort of capitalize on a lot of that energy the same way they're doing on newtown to motivate people to action. from a political perspective in congress democrats raised pacs, as well. gabrielle giffords aims to raise $20 million for the 2014 midterm elections. the n.r.a. is obviously, as you meioned, going to be adding to their membership, getting more fund raising so this is a battle and a place where they can take out intense positions. >> sreenivasan: how...
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after newtown he did. that's the difference. >> rose: i'm not sure i understand the difference. why isn't it the same? >> it's a difference from presidents who are inactive. >> rose: oh, i see. >> i would argue newtown was the closest thing to selma that we've had. and i think that that shows that this could be a strong second term. >> bob, what are the agenda items for the president beyond immigration? what else? >> i mean, this often happens to presidents who focus on the domestic agenda that something happens in the world that drags him into something he didn't anticipate and want. so i think -- i think if you look overall at the first term on the foreign affairs front he's done a really good job of managing all of that chaos and uncertainty and he has been both the hawk and the dove and i think there are few people in the world who think he won't crack him if he decides it's necessary. in other words, he will use the military in some way. so what -- i think the healing thing is the issue here. people who are going to listen to him are going to say you know what? he's reachin
after newtown he did. that's the difference. >> rose: i'm not sure i understand the difference. why isn't it the same? >> it's a difference from presidents who are inactive. >> rose: oh, i see. >> i would argue newtown was the closest thing to selma that we've had. and i think that that shows that this could be a strong second term. >> bob, what are the agenda items for the president beyond immigration? what else? >> i mean, this often happens to presidents...
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in fact, in just those few weeks since the newtown slaughter of the innocent, more than 400 people have died from guns in america. that should boost the last quarter profit margins. so not surprising, the merchants of death are experiencing a happy new year. we can't forget. we mustn't relent. we have to keep talking abt is, cause wayne lapierre and the nra are insidious and powerful predators. have you seen the reports in both the "journal of the american medical association" and "the washington post" of how, 16 years ago, the nra managed to get congress to pull funding on gun violence studies at the centers for disease control and prevention? and just two years ago, nra henchmen even snuck a provision into the affordable care act that prevents doctors from collecting information on their patients' gun use. as wayne lapierre's brazen call for an armed populace makes clear, the odds don't favor common sense. there are always members of congress willing to do the gun lobby's bidding as they profess their love of the second amendment and wait like hungry house pets for the next nra campai
in fact, in just those few weeks since the newtown slaughter of the innocent, more than 400 people have died from guns in america. that should boost the last quarter profit margins. so not surprising, the merchants of death are experiencing a happy new year. we can't forget. we mustn't relent. we have to keep talking abt is, cause wayne lapierre and the nra are insidious and powerful predators. have you seen the reports in both the "journal of the american medical association" and...
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. >> if there's a step we can take that will save even one child from what happened in newtown, we should take that step. >> the measures are expected to checks for all gun pchas and an o assault weapons. >>> investigators from japan's transport ministry are looking into the safety of japan airline's newest plains. they'll try to find out why fuel leaked from a 787 dreamliner. oil spilled from a nozzle last tuesday at boston logan's airport. they found fuel leaking from a different nozzle on the same wing. the transport ministry inspectors will check the fuel coro system and examine each valve. they want to know whether the problem is unique to one plane or affects other boeings. >>> investors who have been sitting on the fence like what they see out of tokyo. >> they are going to like what they see today. tokyo stocks are kicking off the week in positive territory. that's held by the weaker yen. they are resuming trading today after a 3-day weekend. the nikkei has reached its highest levels. tokyo shares are much higher. yen weakness is prompting traders to buy a wide range of stocks inc
. >> if there's a step we can take that will save even one child from what happened in newtown, we should take that step. >> the measures are expected to checks for all gun pchas and an o assault weapons. >>> investigators from japan's transport ministry are looking into the safety of japan airline's newest plains. they'll try to find out why fuel leaked from a 787 dreamliner. oil spilled from a nozzle last tuesday at boston logan's airport. they found fuel leaking from a...
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in one passage he paid tribute to the victims of last month's elementary school shooting in newtown, connecticut. >> all of us, as vital as the one light we move through, the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day, equations to solve, history to question or atoms imagined, the "i have a dream" we all keep dreaming or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain the empty desk of 20 children marked absent today and forever. >> ifill: a rev. of st. john's episcopal church where the first family worshipped this morning gave the been diction >> we pray for your blessing because without it, we will see only what the eye can see. but with the blessing of your blessing, we will see that we are created in your image, whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant american or daughter of the american revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor. we pray for your blessing because without it, we will only see scarcity in the midst of abundance. but with your blessing, we will recognize the abundance of the gifts of this good land with which you have
in one passage he paid tribute to the victims of last month's elementary school shooting in newtown, connecticut. >> all of us, as vital as the one light we move through, the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day, equations to solve, history to question or atoms imagined, the "i have a dream" we all keep dreaming or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain the empty desk of 20 children marked absent today and forever. >> ifill: a rev. of st....
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association executive at the first formal congressional hearing on gun violence since the massacre in newtown, connecticut. >> proposing more gun control laws, while failing to enforce the thousands we already have, is not a serious solution to reducing crime. >> ifill: then, we assess the state of the economic recovery, as keindicatorshow ends oth up and down. >> brown: from jerusalem, margaret warner has the latest on the attack by israeli warplanes inside syria. >> ifill: judy woodruff talks with newly elected senator tammy baldwin, a democrat from wisconsin. >> brown: we examine how some schools are translating lessons into real world applications in an effort to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students. >> i'm actually really excited to be creating this device. it really makes you feel, i don't know, grown up, i guess? it's not just learning, it's experiencing. >> ifill: and we close with a first person account of the sugglfor human rights in china. ray suarez sits down with an activist who spent two years under house arrest. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newsh
association executive at the first formal congressional hearing on gun violence since the massacre in newtown, connecticut. >> proposing more gun control laws, while failing to enforce the thousands we already have, is not a serious solution to reducing crime. >> ifill: then, we assess the state of the economic recovery, as keindicatorshow ends oth up and down. >> brown: from jerusalem, margaret warner has the latest on the attack by israeli warplanes inside syria. >>...
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after the shootings at an elementary school in newtown connecticut, he appointed vice president biden to come up with recommendations for action. the vice president met with lawmakers today and with groups on both sides of the issue last week. plans to submit proposals by tomorrow. president obama would not discuss specifics today. instead he said this. >> i'm confident that there are some steps that we can take that don't require legislation and that are within my authority as president. and where you get a step that has the opportunity to reduce the possibility of gun violence, then i want to go ahead and take it. >> brown: he conceded that a fight in congress is likely but he hopes that some compromise is is possible. >> the issue here is not whether or not we believe in the second amendment. the issue is are there some sensible steps that we can take to make sure that somebody like the individual in newtown can't walk into a school and gun down a bunch of children? in a shockingly rapid fashion. and surely we can do something about that. >> brown: also today the president took the
after the shootings at an elementary school in newtown connecticut, he appointed vice president biden to come up with recommendations for action. the vice president met with lawmakers today and with groups on both sides of the issue last week. plans to submit proposals by tomorrow. president obama would not discuss specifics today. instead he said this. >> i'm confident that there are some steps that we can take that don't require legislation and that are within my authority as president....
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>> i don't know, david describes the history and the context of it but you know, i do think that newtown changed it and i think newtown changed in in a way that none of us really understands and it is because of victims is. and the teachers. it just that setting, it is just such an absolutely unimaginable setting. and i just on a personal note, on april 9th, 1968, i was in the baptist church when martin luther king's funeral, remarkable event, and two months later i was working in california and robert kennedy's campaign when he was shot. martin luther king was 39, robert kennedy was 42. that's 42 years after being shot, one million, 260,000, 703 americans died from firearms, by firearms, in the total history of the united states in every war, in the revolutionary, all the-- 659,000 americans is have died, if you go back, twice as many in one fifth the time. and i think the president has the capacity and the standing at this point to make that case, that we, that this is an american exceptionalism. when we have five times, four times as many people killed in this country as in the next 2
>> i don't know, david describes the history and the context of it but you know, i do think that newtown changed it and i think newtown changed in in a way that none of us really understands and it is because of victims is. and the teachers. it just that setting, it is just such an absolutely unimaginable setting. and i just on a personal note, on april 9th, 1968, i was in the baptist church when martin luther king's funeral, remarkable event, and two months later i was working in...
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this time after the murders of the children in newtown, conn., the president tells us this is different. the president has signed 23 executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence and is urging congress to reinstate a ban on so-called assault weapons, limit the size on magazines, and mandate here are some background checks for all gun sales. he is also asking the public to put heat on members of congress. remembers of congress if they support universal background checks to keep guns out of the wrong hands. the response from the nra was immediate. >> is the president's kids more important than yours? why is he's skeptical about putting our security in his school's, when his daughters have arm together school? mr. obama demands of will to pay their fair share of taxes but he is just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to his fair share of security. protection for his ks angun- free zones for hours. -- for ours. >> at the white house, and jay carney called the ad cover the. the nra says that the ad is not aimed at anyone's child in particular. anyone who says otherwise is changing the
this time after the murders of the children in newtown, conn., the president tells us this is different. the president has signed 23 executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence and is urging congress to reinstate a ban on so-called assault weapons, limit the size on magazines, and mandate here are some background checks for all gun sales. he is also asking the public to put heat on members of congress. remembers of congress if they support universal background checks to keep guns out of the...
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scene of a december massacre. 20 children and six adults were killed at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, nearly three weeks ago. scene, so today, more than 400 students were welcomed back to a freshly refurbished school in the nearby town of monroe. they arrived amid heightened security, as police lieutenant keith white looked on. >> watching them get off the bus, most of the kids were excited. they had seen friends they hadn't seen in awhile. they were anxious to get into the hallways and meet up with you could see the teachers had the same response. they were quite excited to see the students all together. >> eenivasan: in a bid to ease any tensions, classrooms were made to resemble the ones at sandy hook. and, parents were allowed to visit their children throughout the day. fighting raged in syria today around key areas that have seen repeated attacks and counter- attacks. in the northwest, rebels made a new attempt to storm a strategic air base in idlib province. state-run media said government troops forced them to retreat. and in damascus, opposition activists reported new governm
scene of a december massacre. 20 children and six adults were killed at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, nearly three weeks ago. scene, so today, more than 400 students were welcomed back to a freshly refurbished school in the nearby town of monroe. they arrived amid heightened security, as police lieutenant keith white looked on. >> watching them get off the bus, most of the kids were excited. they had seen friends they hadn't seen in awhile. they were anxious to get into the...
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misunderstand what is going on in the country, the change in mood in the country, especially after newtown. the tea party defeated richard luggar in indiana and was full of themselves and now instead of conservative republican holding that seat, like lugar it is a moderate democrat joe done oly holding that seat. i think the nra is very much in the same my op oik mind-set. and i think that shall did --. >> i think i disagree. i think they know what they are doing. they know what is happening but they are making sure gun owners think obama going to take away your guns. >> woodruff: thank you both. and mark and david keep up the talon the "doubleheader," recorded in our newsro. hat wille posted at the top of the rundown later tonight. >> brown: finally, a word about tonight's edition of "need to know" on pbs. as the discussion goes on in washington about revising the federal tax code, "need to know" profiles four new jersey residents with dramatically different incomes to demonstrate how current tax regulations disproportionately benefit some americans more than others. megan thompson report
misunderstand what is going on in the country, the change in mood in the country, especially after newtown. the tea party defeated richard luggar in indiana and was full of themselves and now instead of conservative republican holding that seat, like lugar it is a moderate democrat joe done oly holding that seat. i think the nra is very much in the same my op oik mind-set. and i think that shall did --. >> i think i disagree. i think they know what they are doing. they know what is...
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>> i think every parent was horrified at what happened in newtown connecticut. to see 20 young children and six adults senselessly murder in an elementary school, it's just shocking beyond words but i think it was also sad that within almost minutes of that tragedy politicians began exploiting that horrible crime to push their gun-control agenda. i do not support that agenda. in fact, i intend to help lead the fight to stop senator dianne feinstein's bill to pass aggressive gun control and in particular to pass a national firearms registry. i don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding americans who exercise their constitutional right to coop and bear arms. >> woodruff: you think assault weapons, high capacity guns should continue to be easily available? >> what i think is two things. number one, that restricting the right to keep and bear armsis unconstitutional. the second aendmen isn integral part of the bill of rights. what it means is politicians cannot strip the guns from law-abiding americans. number two it's misguide
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. >> suarez: in the wake of the newtown massacre, the "newshour" asked students from the 45 schools participating in our student reporting labs project about ways to prevent the next school shooting. here is sampling of what they said. >> all of these kids and all of these adults, a lot of adults that are hurting people it's because they have access to the guns so i feel like they just need to tighten up the system and change the rules about gun regulations. >> in west virginia we're all hunters here so everybody's concerned about, you know, they're going to take our guns away and honestly that's not the solution. you know when you couldn't make alcohol before they still did it people will still have guns no matter what you do so you can just raise aarens and to hope that this doesn't happen again. >> i would hate to say it, but just gun control period. yes i understand that in our constitution it says we have the right to bear arms but who are we giving the arms out to? so when it comes to schools i would say institute metal detectors but that will cost a lot of money but at least check the peop
. >> suarez: in the wake of the newtown massacre, the "newshour" asked students from the 45 schools participating in our student reporting labs project about ways to prevent the next school shooting. here is sampling of what they said. >> all of these kids and all of these adults, a lot of adults that are hurting people it's because they have access to the guns so i feel like they just need to tighten up the system and change the rules about gun regulations. >> in...
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on gun violence today, meeting with police chiefs from aurora, colorado; oak creek, wisconsin; and newtown, connecticut. they were the sites of the worst mass shootings of 2012. the white house meeting also included vice president biden and cabinet officials, along with the heads of the major cities chiefs association and the major county sheriffs association. we recognize that this is an issue that elicits a lot of passion all across the country. hopefully if law enforcement officials who are dealing with this stuff every single day can come to some basic consensus in terms of steps that we need to take, congress is going to be paying attention to them and we'll be able to make progress. >> sreenivasan: president obama renewed his push for a ban on assault-style weapons. but he also said washington has to "get serious" about universal background checks and mental health issues. the boy scouts confirmed today they're reconsidering a longstanding ban on gay scouts and leaders. a spokesman said the policy may be changed to let sponsors of individual units decide for themselves. sponsoring gr
on gun violence today, meeting with police chiefs from aurora, colorado; oak creek, wisconsin; and newtown, connecticut. they were the sites of the worst mass shootings of 2012. the white house meeting also included vice president biden and cabinet officials, along with the heads of the major cities chiefs association and the major county sheriffs association. we recognize that this is an issue that elicits a lot of passion all across the country. hopefully if law enforcement officials who are...
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and then what happened in newtown, well, it just took it to another whole level. you've seen reflected already in some early polling data. this is something that really seems to be where the ice is breaking. that there is a much more open, a greater willingness on the part of folks including some conservatives in the media and on cap follow-- capitol hill to ent-- to entertain what we call common sense gun restrictions. and it's the pictures. we have all attended vicariously funeral after funeral after funeral. that has to have an impact. >> woodruff: and imagining what those parents and family members are going through through. >> absolutely. >> woodruff: finally what about internationally, we spent a lot of time this year talking about syria, the middle east, some about china. what do you see on the global landscape? >> china i think is very important thing to mentionment because in the last two years china has become the second largest economy in the wod, not the third. and one thing interesting, we sent three astronauts into outer space, docked with another mo
and then what happened in newtown, well, it just took it to another whole level. you've seen reflected already in some early polling data. this is something that really seems to be where the ice is breaking. that there is a much more open, a greater willingness on the part of folks including some conservatives in the media and on cap follow-- capitol hill to ent-- to entertain what we call common sense gun restrictions. and it's the pictures. we have all attended vicariously funeral after...
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united in grief, united in hope, united in newtown. 27 wooden angels in newtown, one for each victim of the massacre. but one month later, that display and most of the other memorials have been taken down. gifts sent from all over the world now preserved in a warehouse to become part of a future permanent memorial. visible reminders of the tragedy mostly gone. the community, however, is still struggling. just today, dozens of family members gathered to announce a mission to promote a national dialogue on gun violence, mental health and school safety. for many of the families involved it's one way to honor the loved ones they lost. >> it is a sad honor to be here today. it has been a month since i lost my son, dylan, and 25 other families lost their loved ones. at times it feels like only yesterday, and other times it feels as if many years have passed. i still find myself reaching for dylan's hand to walk across the parking lot or expecting him to crawl into bed beside me for early morning cuddles before school. it is hard to believe he is gone. >> it is steel hard, the crime scene r
united in grief, united in hope, united in newtown. 27 wooden angels in newtown, one for each victim of the massacre. but one month later, that display and most of the other memorials have been taken down. gifts sent from all over the world now preserved in a warehouse to become part of a future permanent memorial. visible reminders of the tragedy mostly gone. the community, however, is still struggling. just today, dozens of family members gathered to announce a mission to promote a national...
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a former congresswoman who survived a mass shooting, gabrielle giffords, visited newtown, connecticut, today. it was three weeks to the day since the massacre asandy hook elementary school. giffords met with town officials, then with families of the victims. the arizona democrat was shot in the head two years ago. six people were killed in the attack. a pakistani teenager has been released from a british hospital three months after the taliban tried to kill her for advocating education for girls. 15-year-old malala yousufzai was airlifted there after being shot in the head in october in pakistan's swat valley. today, the hospital in birmingham, england, released video and photographs of malala waving to the staff and hugging her nurses as she left on thursday. for now, she'lstay in britain with her family, and next month, she'll have skull reconstruction surgery. hundreds of thousands of palestinians rallied in gaza today in a rare show of support of the fatah movement there. the yellow flags of fatah were seen waving all over gaza in large squares, in processions, and from rooftops.
a former congresswoman who survived a mass shooting, gabrielle giffords, visited newtown, connecticut, today. it was three weeks to the day since the massacre asandy hook elementary school. giffords met with town officials, then with families of the victims. the arizona democrat was shot in the head two years ago. six people were killed in the attack. a pakistani teenager has been released from a british hospital three months after the taliban tried to kill her for advocating education for...
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more from newtown straight ahead. first, though, john has a look at the other stories making news today. >> good morning, soledad. >>> all but three states in the grip of the flu epidemic. the cdc says the only states spared are california, hawaii, and mississippi. in new york, getting a flu shot is becoming tougher and tougher. there's been a run of the vaccine at some pharmacies and urgent care centers since governor cuomo declared a public health emergency. i'm joined by cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. we hear the word epidemic. what does it mean? >> it's a big scary word. basically, when the centers for disease control takes a look at the number of people sick and dying from the flu, it's reached a certain level. it's an epidemic pretty much every year. every year we reach epidemic levels. the word itself doesn't mean much. what people really ought to be thinking about is how to keep from getting sick. get a flu shot, wash your hands, stay home from work or school if you're sick. >> since we're t
more from newtown straight ahead. first, though, john has a look at the other stories making news today. >> good morning, soledad. >>> all but three states in the grip of the flu epidemic. the cdc says the only states spared are california, hawaii, and mississippi. in new york, getting a flu shot is becoming tougher and tougher. there's been a run of the vaccine at some pharmacies and urgent care centers since governor cuomo declared a public health emergency. i'm joined by cnn...
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woodruff: i want to ask you about the availability of guns in this country after the terrible shooting in newtown, connecticut, killing of 20 first-graders. there's a lot of discussion about whether americans should have access that they have today. do you think there should be limits on americans' access to guns? >> first of all it's horrible, horrible what happened to those children and the adults in that school. and every american, we know that and our heart goes out to those people. but i am a strong supporter of our second amendment rights. so i believe that we don't need to act swift swiftly now in reaction and having an emotional reaction to a horrible situation and put on limits on our constitutional rights. >> woodruff: what about the national rifle association recommendation, the president spoke the other day and said the solution is having an armed guard in every school in the country. do you think that's a good idea? >> i believe that was offered by former president bill clinton as the solution to violence also. those decisions though need to be made at the local level. i was a school
woodruff: i want to ask you about the availability of guns in this country after the terrible shooting in newtown, connecticut, killing of 20 first-graders. there's a lot of discussion about whether americans should have access that they have today. do you think there should be limits on americans' access to guns? >> first of all it's horrible, horrible what happened to those children and the adults in that school. and every american, we know that and our heart goes out to those people....
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we do in congress today to help the healing of newtown? >> thank you. >> thank you, my condolences. also to the representatives from the virginia shooting. my sincere condolences. we live in a culture of violence. the question is, how do we change from a culture of violence into a culture of education and a culture of peacefulness? it takes money. we here in congress have that ability. preventing mass shootings by way of banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, certainly something we should do. we need to get at the issue of violence that affects us with respect to handguns used primarily in inner-city areas to kill people. i am not advocating for a ban on handguns. do not get me wrong. i will say we need to address the issue of violence in our culture. i would like to know what kinds of resources are available to help students and help people in the community, adults, who have an emotional or mental disorders and whether or not we need to put more resources into that area. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you for be
we do in congress today to help the healing of newtown? >> thank you. >> thank you, my condolences. also to the representatives from the virginia shooting. my sincere condolences. we live in a culture of violence. the question is, how do we change from a culture of violence into a culture of education and a culture of peacefulness? it takes money. we here in congress have that ability. preventing mass shootings by way of banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, certainly...
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>> yes. >> lives in newtown? >> she lives in newtown. >> she runs this committee, this is the committee who really decides who gets to be on the board. they pretend to have elections, but this committee is rigged. >> and she ran the nominating committee in 2012. there is a new committee in effect now. but the way the elections work, it is sort of like a communist politburo, nobody knows who is on there. >> you just finding out who is on there is difficult. >> absolutely, and supporters of the nra, but some claim it is a sham election. they hand-pick the candidates for the nra elections that get on the ballot. and 29 out of 31 candidates on the ballot are in fact picked by the nominating committee. every year, one or two get on by a petition of 250 members or more. the result is, the election is a done deal before the ballots go out. and pro-nra bloggers entered a complaint, that i don't know if i will fill it out, it is a waste of time, there is no discussion or debate in the process. it is simply about rubber st
>> yes. >> lives in newtown? >> she lives in newtown. >> she runs this committee, this is the committee who really decides who gets to be on the board. they pretend to have elections, but this committee is rigged. >> and she ran the nominating committee in 2012. there is a new committee in effect now. but the way the elections work, it is sort of like a communist politburo, nobody knows who is on there. >> you just finding out who is on there is difficult....
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what they saw in newtown, connecticut. he talked about standing in the building opposite side appearance as they brought the children out of the school and parents would rush to grab the babies and hug them. at the end of the day they were 20 parents standing alone. that is what it took. the question is what we do about it? what can we do about it? we can only do as much as the american people help us do. we need to have their support. science cannot win this issue. we have to speak out. in the month after newtown, connecticut 126 innocent lives were lost, the semi automatic weapons and a person who never should have owned it. we had over 26 people killed on the streets of the city of chicago, victims of gun violence and the tragedy continues to repeat itself. i met with the police chief and talked about this and he brought with him a piece of evidence like you will see here. the night before it had been used in the streets of chicago. thank goodness a jam after one round and nobody was hurt or killed. but that is what thi
what they saw in newtown, connecticut. he talked about standing in the building opposite side appearance as they brought the children out of the school and parents would rush to grab the babies and hug them. at the end of the day they were 20 parents standing alone. that is what it took. the question is what we do about it? what can we do about it? we can only do as much as the american people help us do. we need to have their support. science cannot win this issue. we have to speak out. in the...
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the president is looking to for more gun control in the wake of newtown. do you see any sign and you heard the conversation today, of a new willingness on congress to pass this kind of legislation? >> not much. they might -- i will assume they will consider various measures but ultimately the measures are not going to do much about unfortunately the mass kicks we had. the president didn't campaign on gun control. second term presidents do well when they try to implement what they told the voters they would focus on. he was going to focus on the economy. he didn't talk about gun control when controlled congress in 2009 and 2010 they didn't reinstate the assault ban. >> chris: but we did have newtown. >> we did have newtown but one incident does not tell you what policy should be and in any case as everyone pointed out a million times the particular things proposed would have is nothing to do with newtown. hot a single proposal on their menu that would have stopped mr. lanza from buying the guns and having the guns apparently. there would have been a registr
the president is looking to for more gun control in the wake of newtown. do you see any sign and you heard the conversation today, of a new willingness on congress to pass this kind of legislation? >> not much. they might -- i will assume they will consider various measures but ultimately the measures are not going to do much about unfortunately the mass kicks we had. the president didn't campaign on gun control. second term presidents do well when they try to implement what they told the...
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the gun used in newtown, connecticut is the kind that would be banned. he wants a limit on ammunition that could have reduced the number killed in aurora, colorado. >> if you want to buy a gun, you should at least have to show you are not a felon or somebody legally prohibited from buying one. >> reporter: it would tighten background checks, which could have helped prevent guns from getting into the hands of the columbine shooters. the president proposed clearing the way for schools who want armed guards to get them. but while he called for a study of violent video games, he made no mention of television or motion pictures. republicans responded negatively, including florida senator marco rubio, who issued a statement that said, in part, president obama is again using his power by imposing his policies via executive fiat. mr. obama pleaded with americans to confront congress directly. >> ask them what's more important. doing whatever it takes to get a "a" grade from the gun lobby or giving parents some peace of mind when they drop their child off for fir
the gun used in newtown, connecticut is the kind that would be banned. he wants a limit on ammunition that could have reduced the number killed in aurora, colorado. >> if you want to buy a gun, you should at least have to show you are not a felon or somebody legally prohibited from buying one. >> reporter: it would tighten background checks, which could have helped prevent guns from getting into the hands of the columbine shooters. the president proposed clearing the way for schools...